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A multidisciplinary community of researchers, clinicians, engineers and emerging scientists working across vision science and ophthalmology.

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Associated Researchers & PhD Candidates

Associated Researchers & PhD Candidates

External researchers, doctoral candidates and collaborators developing research directly linked to the group without belonging to it administratively.

Associated PhD Researcher

Alfred Ragot

Senior Lecturer

Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya

Alfred Ragot is a Senior Lecturer at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya, and a PhD candidate at the Universitat de València. His doctoral research is co-supervised by Prof. Alejandro Cerviño and Dr. Isabel Signes and focuses on evaluating the clinical and social impact of cataract surgery in Samburu, Kenya.

PhD thesis

Visual Outcomes and Quality of Life Impact Following Cataract Surgery in Samburu, Kenya: A Mixed-Methods Approach

Associated Researcher

Isabel Signes Soler

President of Visió Sense Fronteres · Optometrist & Researcher

Visió Sense Fronteres (Calpe, Spain) — Adjunct Researcher, MMUST, Kenya

Isabel Signes Soler, OD, PhD, is an optometrist and researcher and President of Visió Sense Fronteres, a non-governmental organisation based in Calpe (Spain) that she has led for more than 25 years. The organisation is dedicated to the prevention of avoidable blindness and delivers international eye-care programmes — cataract surgery campaigns, visual screening and the provision of spectacles — across countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. She was previously an associate lecturer at the Universitat de València and is currently an Adjunct Researcher at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya. Her scholarly work spans ophthalmology and visual impairment, intraocular surgery and lenses, and the ocular surface and contact lenses. Within this research collaboration, she co-supervises doctoral research developed with members of the group, contributing her field experience in international eye care and global eye health.